Marycrest Girls High School

Marycrest High School
Location
Denver, Colorado United States
Information
Type	private, all female
Established	1958
Closed	1988
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	200 (peak in the 1970s)
Affiliation	Roman Catholic Church

Marycrest Girls High School was an all female high school located at 5320 Federal Boulevard in Denver, Colorado, United States.^[1] The school was a private Roman Catholic institution.^[2]

History

The Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity purchased property near 52nd Avenue and Federal Boulevard in northwest Denver to house a convent and motherhouse for their order's new midwestern province in 1938. They christened the property Marycrest. The sisters converted their novitiate into Marycrest High School in 1958. The school's enrollment peaked around 200 in the 1970s, when it was known as a female counterpart to nearby Regis Jesuit High School. The school closed in 1988.^[3]

Following the school's closure, its campus was leased to Tennyson Center for Children with an option for that organization to purchase the property.^[4] In 1996, the building was demolished and replaced with assisted living residences.^[5]

Notable alumnae

Katherine Ann Power '67^[2]
Heather Coogan, first female police chief of Littleton, Colorado^[6]

References

↑ Marycrest Girls High School. All Area Codes. Retrieved on February 29, 2008.
1 2 Carlson, Margaret (1993-09-27). "The Return Of The Fugitive". Time. Retrieved 2007-06-22.
↑ Noel, Thomas J. (1989). "Vehr: The Flowering of Catholicism (1931-1967)". Colorado Catholicism and the Archdiocese of Denver, 1857-1989. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado. ISBN 0-87081-179-7. OCLC 20454010. Retrieved 2007-08-04.
↑ Tennyson Center for Children: History
↑ King, Roxanne (2000-05-03). "A jewel of serenity in the midst of the city". Denver Catholic Register. Retrieved 2007-08-04. Two assisted living complexes . . . are the newest of the sisters' ministries. Located on the site once occupied by Marycrest High School, an all-girls school the sisters operated from 1958-1988, the school was torn down in 1996 to make room for the residences.
↑ Moreno, Ivan (2007-06-01). "Coogan to lead Littleton police". Rocky Mountain News. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-08-04.

External links

Marycrest Assisted Living

Archdiocese of Denver

Ordinaries	Bishops Joseph Projectus Machebeuf Nicholas Chrysostom Matz John Henry Tihen Archbishops Urban John Vehr James Vincent Casey James Stafford Charles J. Chaput Samuel J. Aquila

Auxiliary Bishops	David Monas Maloney George Roche Evans Richard Charles Patrick Hanifen José Horacio Gómez James D. Conley

Churches	Cathedral Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception Parishes Annunciation Church, Denver St. Dominic's Church, Denver St. Ignatius Loyola Church, Denver St. Joseph's Church, Denver St. Joseph's (Polish) Church, Denver St. Anthony's Church, Sterling Chapels Chapel on the Rock St. Patrick Mission Church, Denver

Education	Higher Education Regis University Augustine Institute Seminary Saint John Vianney Theological Seminary High Schools Arrupe Jesuit High School, Denver Bishop Machebeuf Catholic High School, Denver Holy Family High School, Broomfield Mullen High School, Denver Our Lady of the Rosary Academy, Mountain View Regis Jesuit High School, Aurora St. Mary's Academy, Cherry Hills Village Former high schools Marycrest Girls High School, Denver Colorado Catholic Academy, Wheat Ridge

Priests	Hubert Newell R. Walker Nickless John Baptist Pitaval

Miscellany	John Paul II Center for the New Evangelization Our Lady of the New Advent

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